This imbalance is the result of ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.
The imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation….
"This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation.
The phantasies of omnipotence and absolute autonomy that animate corrupt subjectivity are further reinforced by subordinates who are too eager to win the recognition of the powerful, or at least too paranoid to overtly challenge their corrupt conduct.
Obama may find the papal exhortation even more stimulating than he expects; it contains the most virulently worded attack ever made by a pontiff on the subject of the darker side of capitalism: consumerism, "the idolatry of money" and "ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation".
"As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems".
The problems of the poor, he said, had to be "radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality".
Attacking unchecked capitalism, the pope said the growing inequality in society was caused by "ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good".
Growing inequality has resulted "from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are charged with providing for the common good".
More than that, though he didn't say it, the old loblolly pine was a symbol of the club's absolute autonomy.
